I am an Assistant Professor at the Delft University of Technology in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science. I am a member of the Interactive Intelligence section.
Main Research Interests
- Cognitive Agents and Agent Programming Languages
Cognitive agents are software agents that maintain a mental state consisting of knowledge, beliefs, and goals. Cognitive agents support autonomous and strategic decision making and derive their choice of action from their beliefs and goals.
- Multi-Agent Coordination
Cognitive agent technology and approaches for coordinating multiple agents can be applied in many areas, including, a.o., in robotics, multi-agent based simulation, serious gaming, and negotiation. I am particularly interested in:
- Cognitive Robotics and Multi-Robot Coordination
The design and development of cognitive control for robots requires the integration of many different techniques from AI in a single embedded system. As such, it is closely related to research on the integration of various abilities into software agents. Multi-agent coordination finds a very interesting application in the coordinating of the behavior of multiple robots that need to perform and solve a common task as a team. - Automated Bilateral and Multi-Party Negotiation
I am interested in negotiation strategies, opponent modeling (learning), negotiation domain modelling, and various other aspects of (bilateral) automated negotiation. In particular, I am interested in using qualitative preferences in negotiating agents though my work in this area is still initial. For an overview of related work in our group you should go here.
Short Bio
I wrote my PhD Thesis Programming with Mental Models about agent languages. Currently, I am working on the GOAL agent programming language.
I organize(d) the following events:
- ProMAS 2008: Sixth international Workshop on Programming Multi-Agent Systems, Estoril, Portugal, May 13th, 2008.
- CIA 2007: Eleventh International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents, Delft, The Netherlands, September 19-21, 2007.
I am/have been a member of the program committees of the following events:
- NMR 2008: Twelfth International Workshop on Non-Monotonic Reasoning, Sydney, Australia, September 13-15, 2008.
- AAMAS 2008: Seventh International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, Estoril, Portugal, May 12-16, 2008.
- ACAN 2008
- COIN@AAAI 2008
- LAM 2008: Logics for Agents and Mobility, Hamburg, Germany, August 4-15, 2008
- EUMAS 2007
- BNAI 2007
